| Show f Plan flan Ian to Reclaim Land With Withy I 1 y New Now Kind of Alfalfa 1 f Th The e U. U P Pacific act fi 0 an and anDOl d DOl Burling Bailing u I. I ton railroads assisted by the United States government have j a i new scheme for reclaiming sevi sev- sev i 1 f I ral ral hundred million acres acres of of arid I Western lands without the aid r. r r and d assistance of expensive i l s t work Dr Elwood Mead Mood he bead head of one of the aric agricultural departments in W Washington ashi will 1 r represent present the gov government in the theft f ft deal eal and md is in Omaha now conferring conferring confer- confer r ring ng with the general managers of ol both roads as to details of f. f the f. work Rork or which will begin in the 1 i p spring pring i g The scheme scheme-is is based on grasses r I E i and a now new alfalfa which grows in ins int s t Southern Russia and which ref requires requires re- re f quires so little moisture as to exist wherever here brush and prairie t 1 er sa sage e doges s can live Experimental at stations will be built at once along long i iI I ale Ithe e railroads and from these h se the will be ced seed seed- f surrounding J country ft 4 c d 1 with the new alfalfa If Jf the 1 jy ti 1 j plan is successful hundreds of i t millions of acres cres will be added to toi toj j i the tie tillable lands west of the theY Missouri river Y y k |
